How does healing prioritize for a Templar

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So, I like to play the cleric/priest/healer in most games. When I got into ESO, I picked up a templar kitty and started to play. However, I noticed a glaring problem to my previous games and the way healing works: there is no targeting of allies. In most MMO's, I have to target a fellow player and then hit my heal ability. Now, with the one focused healing ability I have, it looks like it target's what's under my aiming crosshair. Or, does it? How does the healing target the player that it ends up healing?

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Sounds like you may be falling prey to your habits of healing on other MMOs. Don't feel to bad I do the same thing still, as I'm sure most do. Healing in ESO has purposefully moved away from the click targeting of the traditional MMO. ESO healing is supposed to be up close and personal for the most part, obviously if you can target well enough with your target healing spells you can from afar. Which brings me to targeting, there is a soft targeting box around everyone (typically referred to as the hit-box in most games) that if you aim at you will target and heal that person. Now if you miss their "hit-box" you will heal either the lowest health member in your party that is in range or yourself.

No more shall healers feel bored battling static health bars, now we must look at floating health bars and chase them.

Edit:

I have also found as I have started healing more that even when not aiming, yet within range of an ally with less health than you, your heal will heal them. I think this is a bit of a design flaw that is hopefully unintentional as it could make single target healing useless.

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